Boskalis seals Smit Lamnalco takeover
ROYAL BOSKALIS B.V. has completed the acquisition of Smit Lamnalco, buying the 50% of shares not already owned for an undisclosed price. On 8 July this year Boskalis announced it...
Pacific Basin’s mixed 3Q
HONG KONG-based Pacific Basin, one of the largest participants in Australasian sub-Panamax bulk trades, continued to generate strong cash flows in 3Q 2024 but underperformed in...
Unions attack KiwiRail cull
KIWIRAIL will begin offering redundancies to all staff from Monday [21 October] in what chief executive Peter Reidy says is part of a “transformation plan” for the...
NZ marine incidents: is fuel quality the problem?
AMID SPECULATION ‘bad’ fuel may have contributed to the 5 October reef grounding and subsequent sinking of HMNZS Manawanui, Maritime New Zealand and Strait NZ have today confirmed...
Exporters to Europe: prepare for new regs
THE European Union’s Import Control System 2/Release 3 will come into effect next month with ANL/CMA CGM advising that following approval from customs authorities ICS2 will ‘go...
Intercargo frets over Rightship move
MOVES BY Melbourne-founded safety-focused digital maritime platform RightShip to change its vessel inspection age triggers in the dry bulk and general cargo sectors (DCN 11...
Back in blue: Strait runner returns
BASS STRAIT ro-ro Tasmanian Achiever II has returned to Melbourne from drydock in Singapore, resplendent in its new Strait Link blue livery. The 2018-built, 28,708 GT vessel,...
IFCBAA joins VPP fray
THE INTERNATIONAL Forwarders and Customs Brokers Association of Australia has joined other peak industry bodies in calling for mandatory regulation of container stevedores’...
CHOGM delays Samoa salvage
WITH 56 leaders due to assemble in Samoan capital Apia next week for the 27th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting a decision about the possible salvage of the RNZS Manawanui...
Norwegians extend PCTC influence
WILH. WILHELMSEN is upping its indirect shareholding in Korea’s Hyundai Glovis, having bought three more tranches of stock in shareholder Treasure ASA in recent days. Wilh....
Industry gets behind Vic freight future
MORE THAN 150 ports and freight stakeholders, companies, regional and rural councils, advocacy groups and the public have provided feedback for the update to the Victorian Freight...
VPP changes welcome but inadequate
ENHANCEMENTS to Melbourne’s Voluntary Pricing Protocol for container stevedores have been met with the sound of one hand clapping. Under the changes announced last week by ports...
Tasmanian ferry furore intensifies - UPDATED
TASMANIAN Deputy Premier, Treasurer and former infrastructure minister Michael Ferguson resigned this morning (15 October) before he could face a no-confidence motion in...
Cook Strait still all at sea
NEW ZEALAND’s deputy prime minister and NZ First party leader Winston Peters has declared he has no faith in KiwiRail’s assessment of its own Cook Strait ferries and sees no...
VIC updates stevedores’ price protocols
MELBOURNE container stevedores have agreed to confine changes to terminal access/infrastructure fees to 1 January of each year, in one of two changes to the Voluntary Pricing...
